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Baby doll:Living Baby Tender Love
Mattel, Inc.1970
The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester, United States
Baby Tender Love, a variation of a drink-and-wet doll, first appeared in Mattel catalogues in the early 1970s. Though several dolls in the Baby Tender Love line doll had nonposable bodies, the Living Baby Tender Love doll came with jointed limbs so that it could sit up on its own. The doll had soft, life-like skin made of "Dublon." Mattel made the doll in a talking version, one with an African American complexion, and one with anatomically correct features.
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- Title: Baby doll:Living Baby Tender Love
- Creator: Mattel, Inc.
- Date Created: 1970
- Location: Mexico
- Subject Keywords: nurture
- Type: Dolls from the Seventies and Eighties, Baby Dolls
- Medium: soft plastic, vinyl, fabric, synthetic hair, Dublon
- Object ID: 112.5445
- Credit Line: Gift of Suzanne Brystal Nielsen in honor of Brent Michael and Crystal Lynn Gramkee
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